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• Pronouns
  • A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.
  • Examples
    • Jacob ran three mile. He is now tired.
      • In this sentence he is the pronoun for the noun Jacob.
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• Antecedents
  • A antecedent is the word or phrase replaced by a pronoun.
  • Example
    • Jacob ran three miles. He is now tired.
      • Jacob is the noun. He is a pronoun that refers to the antecedent, Jacob.
      • for more help try Pronoun- Antecedent Agreement.
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• Personal Pronouns
  • A personal pronoun represent people or things.
  • Personal pronouns consist of I, me, my, mine, you, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs, we, us, our, ours.
  • example
    • They always seem to be late for practice.
      • They is the personal pronoun.
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
• First Person Personal Pronouns
  • First Person Personal Pronouns is the one person speaking.
  • Use I, we, me, us when using First Person Personal Pronouns.
  • example
    • I see the boy down the hill.
      • I is the first person personal Pronoun.

For more help try these slide shows



Other Links:
http://www.speakwrite.net/pronoun_charts.htm
http://www.esldesk.com/vocabulary/pronouns